Spencer Douglass Crockwell Quotes

The belief was that women were too fragile to be able to stand up to the pressure of a battlefield situation. All nurses had to be male. However, men were needed to do the fighting and some nurses were assigned to battlefield situations.

Yoder was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Two Purple Hearts in World War II

The Centograph is a war memorial monument in London. On Remembrance Day, a British Patriotic Holiday, veterans march past the Centograph. The quotation is text uttered by one of her characters.

This statement was a subtle rebuke to then Japanese Prime Minister Abe who argued for an end to Japanese apologies for WWII. Unlike Germany where politicians led national efforts not only to apologize to the victims of German aggression and atrocities, Japan's politicians have been much less courageous and moral. As of this speech, for example, Japan not only had never apologized to the remaining living "comfort women" who the Japanese forced into sex-slaves for military "morale", or for many of the other even worse atrocities. Many Japanese, including politicians, even denied that these events had taken place and tried to rewrite history, not unlike Holocaust deniers. Abe, whose grandfather, was a member of the WWII Imperial War Cabinet that authorized all this militarism and aggression, has even publicly prayed at the tombs of some of the worst of the Japanese war criminals.

The first two lines of the song became the slogan a few years later of veterans of the Normandy invasion of WWII.

Flying Tigers were American Mercenary Volunteers fighting for China against Japan before Pearl Harbor. The name was adopted in 1947 by a California group of disaffected World War II veterans who rode motorcycles.

Commenting on the hostility which greeted some returning Vietnam veterans:

Dole, was seriously wounded in WWII and lost the use of one arm.

There is a , romantic American myth about the Militiamen in Colonial and Revolutionary America—the citizen soldiers who would leave their farms and rise to the military necessity of the day. However, not only were the militia very hard to muster to duty, but most actually didn’t own or have experience with firearms, and the prevailing opinion of knowledgeable military leaders from George Washington on down was that the militia were not very good soldiers. See {613015}, {613016}, {613022}, {613027}, {621987}, {621988}, {613030}, {613033}, & {613056}.

Even in democratic America, this has been true. We spend almost any amount of money to give our military the weapons of war that will make them more effective soldiers, but when they return with mental and physical wounds, government money is not so easy to come by to preserve them in good health. Cost is a major consideration in Veterans benefits and care, but weapons expenditures have little restraint. It has been so for many years in many cultures.

Even as he was being executed for his many war crimes, the Field Marshal exhibited the mental perspective of Germanic patriotism that had brought Europe as well as Germany itself so much death and ruin.

There was no provision then for wounded and elderly soldiers. Madison’s suggestion was the beginning of the idea of The Veterans’ Administration which it would evolve into many years later.

The General had differed with the George W. Bush Administration neoconservatives over the strategy regarding the invasion and war in Iraq. He was pushed out of office as a result. Later, it was clear that he was right originally, and the press, some members of Congress and others wanted him to comment. He refused.